I have been cutting 1 and 1/2 " squares for years. I know
what I am going to do with them, but they are definitely not all different,. They are small pieces that are left over from other projects. There might be l or 2 of a pattern and there may be 20...I would have trouble counting
'alikes' even if I wanted to. It is the all-over effect that makes the quilt interesting. I have a lot of different
fabrics in my stash...but I'm not sure they measure in the
thousands, ha.